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US, China Announce Domestic Climate Actions

September 28, 2015September 25, 2015 by Karen Henry

The US and China released a Joint Presidential Statement on Climate Change, which includes substantial domestic climate actions that are designed to help the countries achieve their respective post-2020 climate goals announced in November 2014. China announced that it is launching a national emissions trading system in 2017. The cap-and-trade system ... Read more »

Clean Air Tech Competition Seeks Pollution Treatment Providers

September 4, 2015September 3, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Air pollution treatment technology providers can apply for the Bluetech Award competition, which aims to improve China’s air quality. The Clean Air Alliance of China, a nonprofit think-tank consisting of policymakers, researchers and business leaders, launched the Bluetech Award to help connect the best technologies around the world to where ... Read more »

Franklin Templeton Invests $15M in Chinese Recycling Company

August 26, 2015August 25, 2015 by Karen Henry

Franklin Templeton Investments, a San Mateo, California-based asset management company, has invested $15 million in Incom Renewable Resources, Plastics News reports. Based in Beijing, China, Incom is a supplier and operator of intelligent solid waste recovery systems. It’s flagship PET bottle-collecting machines — dubbed reverse vending machines — are equipped ... Read more »

Zero-Emissions Vehicles Reduce Pollution at World’s Busiest Container Port

August 25, 2015August 24, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Efficient Drivetrains, Inc., which manufactures zero emissions hybrid and electric drivetrains, has delivered a fleet of PHEV trucks for the Port of Shanghai built in collaboration with one of the world’s largest truck manufacturers, Shaanxi Automotive. The government of China is currently aggressively asserting mandates and regulations to improve air ... Read more »

Nike’s Logistics Center Is China’s First LEED Platinum Warehouse

August 24, 2015August 23, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Nike’s China Logistics Center — the country’s first LEED Platinum warehouse — is projected to reduce CO2 emissions by 4,200 tons annually, according to an article on the USGBC website. The company achieved LEED Platinum certification for the 200,000-square-meter facility in Taicang, China in 2011. It’s the company’s largest distribution ... Read more »

Hormel Foods’ Plant Cuts GHG Emissions 60%

August 14, 2015August 13, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Hormel Foods achieved a 60 percent decrease in greenhouse gas emissions in 2014, compared to 2013, at its Beijing, China plant after replacing two coal fire boilers with more efficient steam generators, relocating the equipment closer to ovens to reduce energy loss, and installing heat recovery technology and thermal solar ... Read more »

China to License DuPont Biofuel Technology

July 17, 2015July 17, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

DuPont says it will license its biofuel technology to China’s largest cellulosic ethanol manufacturing plant. The agreement allows Jilin Province New Tianlong Industry’s (NTL) plant, located in Siping City, Jilin Province, to license DuPont’s cellulosic ethanol technology and use DuPont Accellerase enzymes to produce renewable biofuel from the leftover biomass ... Read more »

OriginClear Expands Water Treatment Technology’s Commercial Reach

July 16, 2015July 15, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Water treatment technology firm OriginClear has entered the Chinese commercial market with the first commercial customer in Hong Kong and an order for a research system from Nanjing University. Both systems sold in China employ OriginClear’s Electro Water Separation process (EWS), a primarily non-chemical system that efficiently removes micro-algae, oils, ... Read more »

GE Helps Beijing Power Plant Reduce Emissions, Boost Efficiency

July 2, 2015July 1, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric Power Generation Services has been selected to help a Beijing power plant reduce its emissions and boost efficiency. The cornerstone of China’s $40 bullion plan to power the 2008 Olympics was the Taiyanggong Thermal Power Station. The 780-MW natural gas-fired plant in Beijing was the first step in ... Read more »

Ecolab Acquires Water Treatment Provider in China

June 17, 2015June 16, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Ecolab has acquired controlling interest in Jianghai Environmental Protection, an industrial water treatment company headquartered in Changzhou, China. Jianghai provides water treatment technologies, chemistries and services to several industries in China, including customers in power and chemicals. Jianghai has more than 550 employees and operates two manufacturing plants in Changzhou. ... Read more »

NREL Supports Chinese PV Investment and Financing Alliance

May 15, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the China PV Investment and Finance Alliance (CPVFA) are collaborating with the goal of opening wide-scale and diverse sources of investment for solar PV asset development in China. NREL will advise CPVFA in areas such as documentation standardization, data availability and consistency in ... Read more »

Apple to Manage 1 Million Acres of Chinese Forests

May 12, 2015May 12, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Apple has announced a multi-year project with World Wildlife Fund that aims to protect as much as 1 million acres of responsibly managed working forests in China that provide fiber for pulp, paper and wood products. Apple has set a goal to achieve a net-zero impact on the world’s supply ... Read more »

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